(n.) A paste or cake composed of the roasted seeds of the Theobroma Cacao ground and mixed with other ingredients, usually sugar, and cinnamon or vanilla.
(n.) The beverage made by dissolving a portion of the paste or cake in boiling water or milk.
Example Sentences:
(1) In the bars of Antwerp and the cafes of Bruges, the talk is less of Christmas markets and hot chocolate than of the rising cost of financing a national debt which stands at 100% of annual national income.
(2) Often, flavorings such as chocolate and strawberry and sugars are added to low-fat and skim milk to make up for the loss of taste when the fat is removed.
(3) The others received a cookie and chocolate mashed diet (C.C.
(4) chocolatiers, I very much enjoy your chocolates but am forced to eat them blindfold because of your perverse decision to cast them into the shapes of seafood.
(5) He was sitting in his buggy in the hall, his face, hands and clothes smeared with chocolate.
(6) When you’ve got an economy shot, as it is in Tasmania, that was seen as a reasonable endeavour by the federal government to assist in enhancing the tourism effort in our state together with helping the dairy industry and creating another 200 factory jobs.” Then opposition leader Tony Abbott announced before the election that the Coalition would provide $16m towards a $66m upgrade of the Cadbury Chocolate factory in Hobart “to boost innovation, support growth in local manufacturing jobs and expand tourism”.
(7) Meanwhile, Guy Harvey has this to say of Kathryn Woodfine's chocolate dilemma: "Settling for the Wheat Crunchies demonstrates the following: Kathryn doesn't go for what she wants in life, she isn't resourceful.
(8) No differences were observed in cocoa powder for drinks and plain chocolate flakes treated with 0.5 dm2 polystyrene of 1 mm thickness.
(9) Pour this mix over the chopped chocolate, let sit for a moment, then stir to combine.
(10) This is an extreme view... hand round some chocolates.'
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(12) Hitting the slopes here isn’t so much an outing as it is a full-on expedition, albeit one fuelled by hot chocolate and whisky toddies at the bottom of every run.
(13) A person who's that out of it deserves both an owl and chocolate, so I got off the train at Piccadilly Circus and picked him up a box.
(14) You should be able to see the distinctive double spiral made even more striking by the dark layering of chocolate.
(15) H. influenzae strains were tested with both Haemophilus test medium (HTM) and PDM ASM II chocolate agar, while the S. pneumoniae strains were tested on Mueller-Hinton sheep blood agar.
(16) The recovery of rodent hairs from chocolate has been significantly improved by the introduction of an additional defatting step, substitution of 40% isopropanol for water, and substitution of mineral oil-heptane (85+15) for heptane in the trapping-off step.
(17) The levels of migration of mineral hydrocarbons from polystyrene cups and glasses have been measured into aqueous food simulants as well as lager, beer, cola, sparkling apple juice, lemon barley water, coffee, hot chocolate, tea, lemon tea and chicken soup.
(18) The US diet phenomenon Jenny Craig was bought by Swiss multinational Nestlé, which also sells chocolate and ice-cream.
(19) Truth told, I simply hadn't the time to do anything more than snap a bar of expensive chocolate into jagged shards and put it in the middle of the table.
(20) Freezing, I get my new friends to hold my place in the queue while I grab a hot chocolate.
Umber
Definition:
(n.) A brown or reddish pigment used in both oil and water colors, obtained from certain natural clays variously colored by the oxides of iron and manganese. It is commonly heated or burned before being used, and is then called burnt umber; when not heated, it is called raw umber. See Burnt umber, below.
(n.) An umbrere.
(n.) See Grayling, 1.
(n.) An African wading bird (Scopus umbretta) allied to the storks and herons. It is dull dusky brown, and has a large occipital crest. Called also umbrette, umbre, and umber bird.
(a.) Of or pertaining to umber; resembling umber; olive-brown; dark brown; dark; dusky.
(v. t.) To color with umber; to shade or darken; as, to umber over one's face.
Example Sentences:
(1) A statement from the Leeds chairman, Andrew Umbers, said Cellino was optimistic as to the outcome of a Rule K hearing.
(2) A banned person is required not to wield director-level authority at a club, and Leeds, where Andrew Umbers has taken over as chairman, maintain Cellino will not direct any matters during his ban.
(3) Their director, Andrew Umbers, said: "We are delighted to have been involved in this transaction.
(4) After a due process, I have also sold – with a clear harm to my interests – a minority stake in the club, so that in no way I could be prevented from freely acting as an independent citizen and individual before any authority.” A separate statement from Umbers read: “Massimo Cellino is taking this independent action so that LUFC is seen to be fully compliant with the Football League Rules and thus help the club avoid any sanctions.
(5) The week one tan shade is somewhere between Tuscan Sunset and Burnt Umber on my Dulux paint chart.
(6) In the golden afternoon light, the gorge looks a little like part of the Grand Canyon, with layered sedimentary rocks in varying tones of rusty brown and umber.
(7) The opportunity as the umber of detections increases is for amateur astronomers – our citizen scientists – to help here,” he said.
(8) By means of microsurgical technique and under the control of the ophthalmoscope 300 mul of isotone solution of NaCl with 22Na or o-131J-iodo-hippuric acid were injected into the space between the retina and pigment epithelium of 28 narcotized tomcats after having closed the inferior retina vessels by photocoagulation about 1 hr before in an umber of the animals.
(9) Mantle, who is over 1.95 metres (6ft 5in) tall, played Greatjon Umber, a Northern lord, in the first series of Game of Thrones.
(10) Sienna, chocolate, saddle brown, umber (burnt or raw), and mahogany work best with decent-to-good hair and even-to-keen features.
(11) We’re in constant discussions with the Football League and our own board and senior management team, we’re not sure.” Tim Kerr, the independent QC who chaired the professional conduct committee, dismissed the legal arguments made by Cellino’s lawyers, and one from the club director Andrew Umbers that claimed there was “a real likelihood of insolvency” should Cellino be disqualified.